Are scholars reading and citing open access journals? Are scholars seeking out open access publication venues? Are scholars taking advantage of the emerging idea of data journals? Is it significant that more than 4500 souls have subscribed to the Ancient World Online daily email update? Is it significant that most open access publications never makes it into library discovery tools? What will be the effect of this summer’s enormously successful Linked Ancient World Data Institute be by the time the second one rolls around in a year? Are people using the Ancient World Linked Data JavaScript Library?

It’s now two hot days later and these and other questions are still knocking around my mind.